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the prototype chip built by D-Wave Systems in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is designed to handle 128 qubits of information.
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Very cool result and agood step for topological quantum computing.
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Thanks Dave. Good to hear of more D-wave fun and games.
BTW That bottom link is pointing to a Washington proxy. The real link is:
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5916/919
Fixed.